Thursday
Jun022011
Iran Snapshot: Haleh Sahabi, Another Martyr for the Movement
Haleh Sahabi and Neda Agha Soltan
As the day developed, it was reminiscent of a day almost two years ago.News emerged, hours after the event, that a woman had died at a public gathering in Tehran. The details were confused at first, but we knew that she was Haleh Sahabi, a women's right activist, and she had collapsed at the funeral of her father, long-time opposition figure Ezzatollah Sahabi.